My mouse pointer briefly turns into an "X" when loading a program that uses crossover

My mouse pointer briefly (1 second) turns into an "X" when loading a program that requires crossover or crossover itself.

Anybody know what this means?

The other day I made a force-quit on crossover after taking long to finish a task I had assigned it. After that I was unable to use crossover (wouldn't load), so I reboot my Mac, and then I was finally able to keep using it.

I'm not sure if it did that "X" thing before the force-quit. But I'm thinking, if I had corrupted or damaged any files AFTER the force-quit, the program wouldn't even load at all or it would give me an error message. The program does indeed load, so I just want to know if this pointer change is an issue.

I tried reinstalling crossover, (drag and drop to trash the icon) and it still did that X thing again.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks!

 

What are your thoughts on that force-quit I made?

Like I said, after the force quit I wasn't able to load crossover, but after a reboot the program ran again.

What are the chances something got damaged as a result of this?

(otherwise the program wouldn't even run at all, right?)

My thinking is that the X shows up because the system realizes it needs to call additional external code to run my app. (Which explains why the cursor only changes for about a sec or so.)